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The Grand Illusion [Minn]
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Est deck cost: $711.62
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Minn, Wily Illusionist

Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a 1/1 blue Illusion creature token with "This creature gets +1/+0 for each other Illusion you control." Whenever an Illusion you control dies, you may put a permanent card with mana value less than or equal to that creature's power from your hand onto the battlefield.

Creature
Minn, Wily Illusionist (afc) 16

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Flash

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Borne Upon a Wind

You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash. Draw a card.

Instant
Borne Upon a Wind (ltr) 495
Leyline of Anticipation

If Leyline of Anticipation is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield. You may cast spells as though they had flash.

Enchantment
Leyline of Anticipation (m20) 64
Reset

Cast this spell only during an opponent's turn after their upkeep step. Untap all lands you control.

Instant
Reset (leg) 73

Flash

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Protection

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Commander's Plate

Equipped creature gets +3/+3 and has protection from each color that's not in your commander's color identity. Equip commander {3} Equip {5}

Artifact
Commander's Plate (cmr) 305
March of Swirling Mist

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may exile any number of blue cards from your hand. This spell costs {2} less to cast for each card exiled this way. Up to X target creatures phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. Each one phases in before its controller untaps during their next untap step.)

Instant
March of Swirling Mist (neo) 61
Winged Boots

Equipped creature has flying and ward {4}. (Whenever equipped creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {4}.) Equip {1}

Artifact
Winged Boots (afc) 20

Protection

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Acceleration

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Ashnod's Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Ashnod's Altar (plst) EMA-218
Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. Sacrifice Commander's Sphere: Draw a card.

Artifact
Commander's Sphere (voc) 163
High Tide

Until end of turn, whenever a player taps an Island for mana, that player adds an additional {U}.

Instant
High Tide (fem) 18c
Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice Mind Stone: Draw a card.

Artifact
Mind Stone (afc) 211
Nyx Lotus

Nyx Lotus enters tapped. {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

Artifact
Nyx Lotus (thb) 235
Sapphire Medallion

Blue spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Artifact
Sapphire Medallion (c14) 266
Sceptre of Eternal Glory

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {T}: Add three mana of any one color. Activate only if you control three or more lands with the same name.

Artifact
Sceptre of Eternal Glory (40k) 166
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (afc) 215
The Golden Throne

Arcane Life-support — If you would lose the game, instead exile The Golden Throne and your life total becomes 1. A Thousand Souls Die Every Day — {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add three mana in any combination of colors.

Artifact
The Golden Throne (40k) 157
Throne of Eldraine

As Throne of Eldraine enters, choose a color. {T}: Add four mana of the chosen color. Spend this mana only to cast monocolored spells of that color. {3}, {T}: Draw two cards. Spend only mana of the chosen color to activate this ability.

Artifact
Throne of Eldraine (woc) 28

Acceleration

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Illusions

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Dream Strix

Flying When Dream Strix becomes the target of a spell, sacrifice it. When Dream Strix dies, learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to draw a card.)

Creature
Dream Strix (stx) 42
Illusory Ambusher

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Whenever Illusory Ambusher is dealt damage, draw that many cards.

Creature
Illusory Ambusher (c20) 113
Illusory Angel

Cast this spell only if you've cast another spell this turn. Flying

Creature
Illusory Angel (ima) 59
Krovikan Mist

Flying Krovikan Mist's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Illusions on the battlefield.

Creature
Krovikan Mist (ddm) 8
Lord of the Unreal

Illusion creatures you control get +1/+1 and have hexproof. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Creature
Lord of the Unreal (m12) 62
Murmuring Mystic

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 blue Bird Illusion creature token with flying.

Creature
Murmuring Mystic (c20) 118
Oneirophage

Flying Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on Oneirophage.

Creature
Oneirophage (jmp) 162
Phantasmal Dragon

Flying When Phantasmal Dragon becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it.

Creature
Phantasmal Dragon (plst) DDM-14
Phantasmal Dreadmaw

Trample When Phantasmal Dreadmaw becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it.

Creature
Phantasmal Dreadmaw (mh2) 339
Phantasmal Image

You may have Phantasmal Image enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it's an Illusion in addition to its other types and it has "When this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it."

Creature
Phantasmal Image (afc) 89
Phantom Steed

Flash When Phantom Steed enters, exile another target creature you control until Phantom Steed leaves the battlefield. Whenever Phantom Steed attacks, create a tapped and attacking token that's a copy of the exiled card, except it's an Illusion in addition to its other types. Sacrifice that token at end of combat.

Creature
Phantom Steed (afc) 18
Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive

Creatures you control with power or toughness 1 or less can't be blocked.

Creature
Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive (dom) 69
Toothy, Imaginary Friend

Partner with Pir, Imaginative Rascal (When this creature enters, target player may put Pir into their hand from their library, then shuffle.) Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on Toothy, Imaginary Friend. When Toothy leaves the battlefield, draw a card for each +1/+1 counter on it.

Creature
Toothy, Imaginary Friend (bbd) 12

Illusions

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Advantage

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Archmage Emeritus

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, draw a card.

Creature
Archmage Emeritus (stx) 37
Bident of Thassa

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card. {1}{U}, {T}: Creatures your opponents control attack this turn if able.

Artifact Enchantment
Bident of Thassa (a25) 42
Blue Sun's Zenith

Target player draws X cards. Shuffle Blue Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

Instant
Blue Sun's Zenith (a25) 44
Brainstorm

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

Instant
Brainstorm (afc) 79
Consecrated Sphinx

Flying Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may draw two cards.

Creature
Consecrated Sphinx (ima) 47
Drowned Rusalka

{U}, Sacrifice a creature: Discard a card, then draw a card.

Creature
Drowned Rusalka (gpt) 24
Faerie Mastermind

Flash Flying Whenever an opponent draws their second card each turn, you draw a card. {3}{U}: Each player draws a card.

Creature
Faerie Mastermind (mom) 58
Frantic Search

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.

Instant
Frantic Search (woc) 93
Ledger Shredder

Flying Whenever a player casts their second spell each turn, Ledger Shredder connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

Creature
Ledger Shredder (snc) 46
Mystic Remora

Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {4}.

Enchantment
Mystic Remora (dmr) 59
Obsessive Search

Draw a card. Madness {U} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Instant
Obsessive Search (tor) 43
Opt

Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) Draw a card.

Instant
Opt (otc) 104
Perilous Research

Draw two cards, then sacrifice a permanent.

Instant
Perilous Research (plst) MMA-58
Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.

Enchantment
Rhystic Study (jmp) 169
Roaming Throne

Ward {2} As Roaming Throne enters, choose a creature type. Roaming Throne is the chosen type in addition to its other types. If a triggered ability of another creature you control of the chosen type triggers, it triggers an additional time.

Creature Artifact
Roaming Throne (lci) 258
Serum Sovereign

Flying Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put an oil counter on Serum Sovereign. {U}, Remove an oil counter from Serum Sovereign: Draw a card, then scry 2.

Creature
Serum Sovereign (one) 405
Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1. Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards. Equip {1}

Artifact
Skullclamp (plst) CMD-260
Teferi's Ageless Insight

If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.

Enchantment
Teferi's Ageless Insight (m21) 76
Teferi, Master of Time

You may activate loyalty abilities of Teferi, Master of Time on any player's turn any time you could cast an instant. +1: Draw a card, then discard a card. −3: Target creature you don't control phases out. (Treat it and anything attached to it as though they don't exist until its controller's next turn.) −10: Take two extra turns after this one.

Planeswalker
Teferi, Master of Time (m21) 275
Titan of Littjara

As Titan of Littjara enters, choose a creature type. Titan of Littjara is the chosen type in addition to its other types. Whenever Titan of Littjara enters or attacks, you may draw a card for each other creature you control that shares a creature type with it. If you do, discard a card.

Creature
Titan of Littjara (cmm) 728
Wavebreak Hippocamp

Whenever you cast your first spell during each opponent's turn, draw a card.

Creature Enchantment
Wavebreak Hippocamp (thb) 80

Advantage

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Interaction

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Aetherize

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

Instant
Aetherize (znc) 23
An Offer You Can't Refuse

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
An Offer You Can't Refuse (snc) 51
Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Instant
Arcane Denial (cmr) 393
Archmage's Charm

Choose one — • Counter target spell. • Target player draws two cards. • Gain control of target nonland permanent with mana value 1 or less.

Instant
Archmage's Charm (mh1) 40
Cyber Conversion

Turn target creature face down. It's a 2/2 Cyberman artifact creature.

Instant
Cyber Conversion (who) 355
Fierce Guardianship

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Fierce Guardianship (cmm) 94
Narset's Reversal

Copy target instant or sorcery spell, then return it to its owner's hand. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Instant
Narset's Reversal (war) 62
Raise the Palisade

Choose a creature type. Return all creatures that aren't of the chosen type to their owners' hands.

Sorcery
Raise the Palisade (ltc) 425
Saw It Coming

Counter target spell. Foretell {1}{U} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Instant
Saw It Coming (khm) 76
Snap

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Untap up to two lands.

Instant
Snap (woc) 110
Spell Syphon

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1} for each blue permanent you control.

Instant
Spell Syphon (shm) 52
Swan Song

Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Instant
Swan Song (c16) 98
Wash Out

Return all permanents of the color of your choice to their owners' hands.

Sorcery
Wash Out (cma) 43
Wizard's Retort

This spell costs {1} less to cast if you control a Wizard. Counter target spell.

Instant
Wizard's Retort (jmp) 198

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Control

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Confounding Conundrum

When Confounding Conundrum enters, draw a card. Whenever a land enters under an opponent's control, if that player had another land enter the battlefield under their control this turn, they return a land they control to its owner's hand.

Enchantment
Confounding Conundrum (znr) 53

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Land

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Bonders' Enclave

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.

Land
Bonders' Enclave (iko) 245
Emergence Zone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice Emergence Zone: You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash.

Land
Emergence Zone (war) 245
Geier Reach Sanitarium

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Each player draws a card, then discards a card.

Land
Geier Reach Sanitarium (afc) 241
Halimar Depths

Halimar Depths enters tapped. When Halimar Depths enters, look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. {T}: Add {U}.

Land
Halimar Depths (afc) 244
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (dsk) 273
Minamo, School at Water's Edge

{T}: Add {U}. {U}, {T}: Untap target legendary permanent.

Land
Minamo, School at Water's Edge (plst) CHK-279
Myriad Landscape

Myriad Landscape enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Myriad Landscape: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Myriad Landscape (voc) 176
Mystic Sanctuary

({T}: Add {U}.) Mystic Sanctuary enters tapped unless you control three or more other Islands. When Mystic Sanctuary enters untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Mystic Sanctuary (tsr) 408
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

Land
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx (plst) THS-223
Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Reliquary Tower (c21) 311
Strip Mine

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice Strip Mine: Destroy target land.

Land
Strip Mine (4ed) 363
Temple of the False God

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Land
Temple of the False God (lcc) 359
Terrain Generator

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: You may put a basic land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.

Land
Terrain Generator (clb) 926
War Room

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.

Land
War Room (cmr) 361

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ADD

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Decoy Gambit

For each opponent, choose up to one target creature that player controls, then return that creature to its owner's hand unless its controller has you draw a card.

Instant
Decoy Gambit (c20) 32
Riptide Laboratory

{T}: Add {C}. {1}{U}, {T}: Return target Wizard you control to its owner's hand.

Land
Riptide Laboratory (mh2) 303

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Altar of Dementia

Sacrifice a creature: Target player mills cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power.

Artifact
Altar of Dementia (mh1) 218
Coat of Arms

Each creature gets +1/+1 for each other creature on the battlefield that shares at least one creature type with it. (For example, if two Goblin Warriors and a Goblin Shaman are on the battlefield, each gets +2/+2.)

Artifact
Coat of Arms (plst) DDS-58
Curiosity Crafter

Flying You have no maximum hand size. Whenever a creature token you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Creature
Curiosity Crafter (c21) 24
Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand. Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Instant
Cyclonic Rift (2xm) 47
Distant Melody

Choose a creature type. Draw a card for each permanent you control of that type.

Sorcery
Distant Melody (znc) 24
Draining Whelk

Flash Flying When Draining Whelk enters, counter target spell. Put X +1/+1 counters on Draining Whelk, where X is that spell's mana value.

Creature
Draining Whelk (tsr) 62
Illusionary Wall

Defender, flying, first strike Cumulative upkeep {U} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)

Creature
Illusionary Wall (ice) 78
Ixidron

As Ixidron enters, turn all other nontoken creatures face down. (They're 2/2 creatures.) Ixidron's power and toughness are each equal to the number of face-down creatures on the battlefield.

Creature
Ixidron (c19) 87
Jace's Phantasm

Flying Jace's Phantasm gets +4/+4 as long as an opponent has ten or more cards in their graveyard.

Creature
Jace's Phantasm (plst) IMA-60
Meloku the Clouded Mirror

Flying {1}, Return a land you control to its owner's hand: Create a 1/1 blue Illusion creature token with flying.

Creature
Meloku the Clouded Mirror (cmr) 399
Mesmerizing Benthid

When Mesmerizing Benthid enters, create two 0/2 blue Illusion creature tokens with "Whenever this creature blocks a creature, that creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step." Mesmerizing Benthid has hexproof as long as you control an Illusion.

Creature
Mesmerizing Benthid (rna) 43
Mistform Warchief

Creature spells you cast that share a creature type with Mistform Warchief cost {1} less to cast. {T}: Mistform Warchief becomes the creature type of your choice until end of turn.

Creature
Mistform Warchief (scg) 43
Moonblade Shinobi

Ninjutsu {2}{U} ({2}{U}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.) Whenever Moonblade Shinobi deals combat damage to a player, create a 1/1 blue Illusion creature token with flying.

Creature
Moonblade Shinobi (mh1) 59
Perplexing Test

Choose one — • Return all creature tokens to their owners' hands. • Return all nontoken creatures to their owners' hands.

Instant
Perplexing Test (c21) 30
Phantasmal Bear

When Phantasmal Bear becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it.

Creature
Phantasmal Bear (plst) A25-69
Phantom Ninja

Phantom Ninja can't be blocked.

Creature
Phantom Ninja (mh1) 62
Phantom Warrior

Phantom Warrior can't be blocked.

Creature
Phantom Warrior (bbd) 129
Psychosis Crawler

Psychosis Crawler's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand. Whenever you draw a card, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature Artifact
Psychosis Crawler (c20) 248
Pyre of Heroes

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Search your library for a creature card that shares a creature type with the sacrificed creature and has mana value equal to 1 plus that creature's mana value. Put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact
Pyre of Heroes (khm) 241
Somnophore

Flying Whenever Somnophore deals damage to a player, tap target creature that player controls. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as Somnophore remains on the battlefield.

Creature
Somnophore (usg) 97
Veiling Oddity

Suspend 4—{1}{U} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {1}{U} and exile it with four time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. It has haste.) When the last time counter is removed from Veiling Oddity while it's exiled, creatures can't be blocked this turn.

Creature
Veiling Oddity (tsr) 95
Wings of Velis Vel

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) Until end of turn, target creature has base power and toughness 4/4, gains all creature types, and gains flying.

Instant Kindred
Wings of Velis Vel (mm2) 70
Wonder

Flying As long as Wonder is in your graveyard and you control an Island, creatures you control have flying.

Creature
Wonder (mh2) 271

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